Thick French Accent

Famous quotes containing the words thick, french and/or accent:

    “Suddenly clouds of snow
    Begin assaulting the air,
    As falling, as tangled
    As a girl’s thick hair.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Vivian Rutledge: So you do get up. I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed like Marcel Proust.
    Philip Marlowe: Who’s he?
    Vivian: You wouldn’t know him. French writer.
    Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)

    “The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)